It Happened. Make of It What You Will

A book of still frames: short, precise moments in which something quietly changes direction.

Written by visual artist Joanna Potepa, this collection moves through Spain, the UK, Poland and Portugal, gathering scenes from roads, homes, stairwells and everyday thresholds.

A woman packs her life into a silver Mazda and drives the length of the Iberian Peninsula. Between the Spanish chapters, other stories surface - from Poland, from England - loosely attached, like still frames from a parallel life. A white peacock crosses a country road. A flamenco dancer sets the floor on fire. A plush giraffe refuses to help at a toll gate. A man dies at four in the morning while his favourite music keeps playing.

Some are sharp. Some are absurd. Most are both.

Blending text, observation and an artist's eye for structure, It Happened. Make of It What You Will is a book about attention, movement, memory and the small moments that alter the course of a life.

No moral. No chronology. No instructions.